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Article: Chemistry, compounding lead to a colorful career.(News)
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- Plastics News
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Byline: Bill Bregar
It's fitting that Robert Swain went to Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., the home of Crayola crayons. The man who founded Chroma Corp. in 1967 is an expert on colorants for the plastics industry. From its early days, color has played a key role in making plastics stand out.
You have to paint metal. With plastics, when the mold opens, out pops a brightly colored plastic part.
"Plastics are relatively easy to color, and do it economically, said Swain, one of the pioneers in concentrated colorants. "It's only in there as a fraction of the cost of the actual part, but it's the color and the design blended together that's what ...